Club Notes 11th and 18th May 2015

Apologies for lack of Club Notes last week, this was due to circumstances beyond our control.

Raheny 2:10 Skerries 3:1
Saturday
9th of May will be a day to remember for a long time by our U14 Feile
team and their supporters as the team were crowned Dublin Division 2
Feile Champions. The team bet a fancied Skerries Harps on our home
soil on Pitch 10. A sporting and skilful display by both teams was
played in ideal conditions on a pitch that was in great condition – no
small thanks to the work of Conor Lee, Gene Henry and their team.
Following
the rain soaked heroics of the previous week topping the group and
winning the semi-final comfortably friends and supporters started to
believe this could be the year. Skerries had other plans as they too
had topped their group and won their semi-final with an impressive
scoreline. A toss of a coin gave home advantage to Raheny and the boys
were determined that the considerable home support would not be
disappointed. And nor were they.
This was an exhibition of hurling
by the young guns from Raheny. Three quick fire Raheny points settled
the nerves of the massive home support (over 250) that turned out to
wish the team well. Skerries replied with a fortuitous goal that came
down off the upright. Within a couple of minutes Skerries struck the
back of the net again. Raheny dug deep and Adam Codd struck over a
perfectly judged long range shot to reduce the margin to two points.
Skerries then scored their third goal to lead by 5. With time ticking
away (20 minutes each half) Raheny pressed the Skerries defence and won a
converted free to reduce the margin to 4. Just as the half time
whistle was about to sound Mark Murphy sent the ball in to Tom Geary.
The fastest full forward in Dublin caught the ball neatly rounded his
man and blasted the ball to the roof of the net. Game on. Half time.
Raheny 1:5 Skerries 3.0.
The second half started like the first
with Raheny dominance rewarded by points from Enda Owens and Liam Dunne
whose free taking, long range and close in, was flawless all day. With
five minutes to go Raheny were 3 points up. Luke Moreau got the ball in
hand, rounded his man and was pulled to the ground. Free to Raheny on
the 20 metre line a little right of the goal. Liam Dunne lined up to
the ball and was advised to pop it over. Advice not taken! Liam drilled
it to the back of the net, the crowd cheered, a 6 point lead suddenly
opened up with 5 minutes to go. In the last 5 minutes Skerries threw
the kitchen sink at Raheny. Thomas Hurley (under 12 !) was super in
goal mopping up everything in front of him. The brick wall in front of
Thomas of Josh Lynch, Sean Lumley, Rob McGuirk and Tom o Donnell let the
Skerries lads know ‘Thou shalt not pass’. Ben Roberts, Luke Fox, Joe
Crimmons and Sean Ryans tackling was super throughout. Eoin Bridgeman
deserves special mention as the hardest working man on the pitch. His
workrate and tackling was a constant thorn in Skerries side as he made
sure Raheny dominated the midfield area from start to finish.
Rahenys
smiling Captain Liam Dunne accepted the cup much to the delight and
cheers of the players, mentors, parents and support.
Scorers Raheny: L Dunne 1:8, T Geary 1:0, A Codd 0:1, E Owens 0:1.

Report for the GREEN AND WHITE U10 team below:

Commercials
shaded a very competitive encounter vs the Raheny White team winning by
7pts to 5pts. Raheny fought for every ball and hunted in packs to deny
the Commercials players time to lift and strike the ball cleanly. Strong
defending from Ted Laput and Patrick Bishop and excellent goalkeeping
from Adam Flynn kept Rahney in touch at the break. The commitment was
huge from both sides and Raheny shaded the second half when the
impressive Kevin Kelly and Jack Kirby got the upper hand in midfield. In
the end Commercials superior accuracy from Free's and 65's was all that
separated the two sides. The Raheny White team have had an excellent
season winning 4 of their 5 games to date and can be happy with their
days work having run a hurling only club like Commercials so close.

Raheny
GAA u10s (Green team) took on Commercials this Saturday. Commercials
are a hurling only club and provided a stiff test to our dual playing
boys. However, Raheny were more than a match for them. Raheny competed
ferociously for every ball throughout the match with Conor Nugent, Mark
Farrelly and Alex Lynch's work rate particularly impressive. Raheny
were well ahead on skill points having made a number of hooks and blocks
throughout the game with Niall Cox and John McNally regularly putting
their hurls in right place. Ryan McGuirk scored the point of the day
from play having hoisted over a massive long range shot. James Wall and
Shay Keogh had a great games in defense and there were top class
goalkeeping displays in each half from Ryan Markham and Cathal Baldwin -
who both showed great accuracy from puck outs. Commercials scored 3
times directly from sideline cuts - a great skill to witness at this
young age group - and that was the score difference at the end but
Raheny can be very proud of their performance.

U16 boys were unsuccessful in their bid to get to the championship final, hard luck lads.

Our
Hurling Ogra is on every Friday at 6 on pitch 12 and On Saturday
morning 10-12. If either are being cancelled this intimation can be
found on Twitter/Facebook, both have a live feed on our website
www.raheny.gaa.ie.

CLUB NOTES 18 May

Well
done to our Heros of the Parish, Our U14 Footballers who fought hard to
get to the Dublin Feile Final and who narrowly lost to Templeogue.
Mentors, Players, Parents and supporters you did the Club proud. Thank
you to Adrienne Atkins and Conor Bridgeman for the regular updates.

Congratulations
to all our U9 girls who made their Communion on Saturday, all gathered
on Sunday morning for a puck around in their dresses!!!

It
Really is congratulations all around our Junior B Hurlers are now
through to the Quarter Finals of the Championship, under the guidance of
manager extraordinaire Mike O Brien.

Our Hurlers had a good win over Commercials in the Dublin IHC, well done lads.

And
last but not least our Minor footballers had another great result,
Raheny 4-10 v 2-07 St Brigids. Another fantastic performance from the
lads.

We were well represented in Blue this weekend, Brian
Howard (capt), Glen Mcnamara, D Byrne and S Macmahon, who with the
Dublin Minors who are through to the Leinster semi Final, and Also Ciara
McDunphy who scored 1-01 in the Leinster Final with the Dublin Ladies
U16 Footballers.

Well done to Scoil Aine Camogie Team who are won their semi-final and are playing in another final in Croke Park.

Thank
you to all involved in the Battle of the Schools on Friday night, we
had a massive 170 Children playing, the future of the club is safe.

URGENT !!!!!!
Our
Ladies Footballer are urgently looking for a Manager, they have 26
committed players and had great start to the season. If interested
please contact Claire on 086-1275502.

Club lotto is now a massive €6,400. Why not play on line, someone has to win..... if could be you.